Either -- but it's more verbose. I'm not so sure David will want to rewrite the entire lift anyway...
------------------------------------- Heiko Seeberger<heiko.seeber...@googlemail.com> wrote: Daniel, I would like to look at this question from a solution oriented perspective: Certainly you already noticed the third Box subtype Failure and are aware of its usage. I agree with you, that Option vs Box is confusing for Lift (and nowadays Goat Rodeo) adopters. As Scala and Lift are still very young adoption is vital and hence I would like to know, what you suggest: How could we only use Option *and* get something like Failure? Any ideas? Heiko On 26 February 2010 05:40, Daniel Spiewak <djspie...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I'm curious as to the > rationale for the Box ADT. I'm most distressed by the fact that it > seems to be masquerading as a drop-in Option replacement, and yet the > mathematical properties of the ADT are widely divergent. What's more, > the API is very, very different, leading to a great deal of confusion > whenever I'm working with code which touches both ADTs (as I often > do). Things like `or` vs `orElse`, `open_!` vs `get` and so on are > very confusing. The implicit conversion Box[A] => Option[A] doesn't > help either, since it means I can easily forget and use Option methods > on Box values, accidentally triggering a conversion. > > The whole `or` vs `orElse` thing is particularly annoying since I > spend a fair amount of time wading through research which discusses > the `orElse` function in its abstract monadic sense. Given the > standard nature of the name (dating back long before Scala), I'm > surprised that Box went with something else. > > I'm sure there are good reasons for all of this, I would just like to > know what they are. :-) > > Daniel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lift" group. > To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<liftweb%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > > -- Heiko Seeberger Company: weiglewilczek.com Blog: heikoseeberger.name Follow me: twitter.com/hseeberger OSGi on Scala: scalamodules.org Lift, the simply functional web framework: liftweb.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
